Education for a Vocation or Society ? The Dialectic of Modern and Customary Epistemologies in Solomon Islands

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dc.contributor.authorWalters, Peter
dc.contributor.authorBenavides, Adrian
dc.contributor.authorLyons, Kristen
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-02T04:26:50Z
dc.date.available2020-04-02T04:26:50Z
dc.date.issued2020en
dc.description.abstractRural Training Centres (RTCs) in the Solomon Islands are community-based initiatives that offer vocational education to men and women. Since the 1960s, RTCs have grown to become an organised movement of 47 centres present almost in every province. Based on learnings from fieldwork in three RTCs, we explore the centres’ training model, and the dialectic between indigenous and Western schooling traditions that converge at some points and deviate at others. We argue that the idiosyncratic features of the RTC learning experience can support the acquisition of skills like independent and critical thinking; important for communities to collectively shape their own development. Our research shows nonetheless that increasing influence from external actors is forcing RTCs into a more Westernised study-for-employment model of vocational education. A shift too far in this direction could significantly hinder the potential of these institutions to foster students capable of addressing Solomon Islands' urgent and unique livelihood and environmental challenges.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.18124/hgmr-7603
dc.identifier.issn2463-641X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/100067
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26021/907
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMacmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studiesen
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectWestern educationen
dc.subjectrural trainingen
dc.subjectSolomon Islandsen
dc.subjectindigenous epistemologyen
dc.subjectvocational educationen
dc.titleEducation for a Vocation or Society ? The Dialectic of Modern and Customary Epistemologies in Solomon Islandsen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
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